People shouldn’t confuse people being angry about data breeches with not caring about the allegations. Very few people are angry that those in the wrong are named, but that those who are victims, complainants and just part of the narrative are
What happened to Dawn and Diane is horrendous and indefensible. Publishing the dossier will disgustingly lead to them getting more abuse. They, and all victims, didn’t deserve to find out about what was being said about them through twitter or the press
They, and other victims, also deserved the right to decide if they got to be named in a leaked dossier. Victims should have the right to remain anonymous (or as anonymous as possible) as they wish.
I hope the leaker gave them a choice but given the way it’s all been leaked that seems unlikely
People who have complained to the party deserve complete anonymity. The name(s) of those who make complaints should not be told to the accused unless it has to (eg sexual harassment).
Just because victims of the complaints system may have gone public in the last but that doesn’t mean that they have their details published without there consent. It’s really not hard
Also notice- in interviews talking about failed complaints people rarely name the accused. And for a reason.
And obviously a buzzfeed piece is far less likely to get neo nazi attention than a leaked dossier on antisemitism
There is something very unsettling about reading this dossier. It’s full of Jewish member X, JLM member Y and Young Jewish Member Z. Most of the time the fact that the person named is Jewish is unrelated any way
And I think it’s entirely possible to be horrified by much of the contents of the dossier and still be very uncomfortable that it appears that every Jewish person named is explicitly referenced as Jewish.
So much of the data not redacted here , fails the ‘public interest’ defence. There is no public interest defence for publishing someone’s mobile number, or mental health history, or previous employment etc. And that all this information is publicly available is horrible
Truthfully some of the data published about those implicated is not public interest. That people deserve to know key staff behaved in these appalling ways doesn’t mean that information unrelated to that should be released
There’s a whole legal problem here for the party. Whoever the data controller is, they’re screwed! But I can sort of understand why some people (lay people, not MPs or NEC members) don’t get that. But I don’t get the complete disregard to those who’s data has been breached
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